Thursday, February 5, 2015

Love at First Bite: Fireside by Kettle

I can’t help it. I just can’t. I smile like
a love struck fool whenever I see a new restaurant. And last December, I saw
Fireside. I was really curious and wanted to check the place out but my
favorite Dragon Lady and two Rs wanted to visit Linguini
Fini then. Three weeks later, I made it happen.

Hello, Fireside!

I guess I
wasn’t too observant when I went in as I was surprised to see that Fireside is owned
by Kettle,
the maker of “Manila’s best buttermilk fried chicken” or so what most foodies
claim. And since I was in a hurry and was quite hungry too, we decided to go
for the following: Grilled Chop House
(PHP189, bowl | PHP389, platter), Buttermilk
Fried Chicken Tenders (PHP489), Steak
BLT (PHP389) and Homemade S’mores
(PHP139).

The salad
was a mix of greens, zucchini,
broccoli,
cauliflower, kale, pineapple, bell pepper, apples, eggs, roasted chicken
breasts and feta
cheese with honey lemon dressing. As much as I love salad, this one took me
a while before I started to really enjoy it. I’m not sure what I found off but
the taste was slightly weird. I loved the broccoli
and chicken though.

The sandwich
was pretty big and good for sharing. The meat was juicy and quite flavorful
too. I had to remove the bread
though as it was starting to get heavy after eating salad and fried chicken.

As for the
dessert…

Presentation
wasn’t that impressive and after enjoying a pan of Refinery’s
baked s’mores,
my expectation was a bit high. Fireside’s version was so-so for me as the
chocolate was a bit pudding-like and it sure was messy to eat this dish. But
the marshmallows
had me at gooey.

Overall, it
was a good dinner. I’ll be back to try the other sandwiches.

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